Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Cave City: Rope Problem

I have started my Cave City Model. I have imported my layout in to Maya so I can use as a reference so I know what to model and where it needs to go.




It looks ok so far until I can across modeling the rope. In my layout I have a lot of rope. Its used to hold the buildings together and hoist goods to the top level. I wanted to make my rope look realistic and I was unsure how I was going to do this. I tried just using a cylinder but it didn't look like realistic rope.

 Image is from Google

From this image you can see that rope is made out of more than one strand. I want to show this in my model so it looks realistic. So looking through you tube I found this very useful tutorial on how to model rope and how to animate it:


Video from YouTube

This is a very useful video. To make the rope your own you can add as many strands as you wont to give the rope thickness. 


This is my rope after I followed the tutorial

My rope before .

My rope now looks to much more realistic now thanks to this tutorial.

I now know in future that if I take time on my models they will look a lot nicer and more realistic 

I will keep posting on my modeling process and If I find any more useful tutorials and websites I will be sure to post them on my blog
thanks for reading 
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